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Have you had the Skittles GUM yet?
I've decided I don't really like it. I mean, I like it, but then I don't. For one thing, even if you put two or three in your mouth, they're the same size as actual skittles so that's one teeny tiny piece o' gum. For another thing, at the beginning, it is superduper juicy. Juicy like juicier than Juicy Fruit juicy. Juicy like your eyes are watering juicy. But then the juice and the flavor both go away FASTER than Zebra Fruit gum, and that is mighty damn fast let me tell you. And you are left with a teeny tiny piece of flavorless gum. What's up with that? Plus the whole time you are chewing it, you are wishing it was an actual Skittle and not Skittle Gum. Thumbs down.
Blind-stitching down the binding on the back of an almost-queen-size quilt is a real fucking bitch, let me tell ya. It was one long Sunday afternoon with 10 episodes of Everwood (season 2) and 1 1/2 DVDs later (Gladiator and 1/2 of A Few Good Men [i.e., I stitched through half of it, but at that point my non stitching but holding hand felt very similar to how it felt the last time it was almost broken so I stopped and just watched the movie]) and I still had 1/2 of one long side to go. Add to the hand issues the fact that I think it's called blind-stitching because it could just about make you go fucking blind. Finally today finished it (another 1/2 DVD: Matrix) only to find that a) camera battery desperately needed charging and b) even up on the ladder with my head banging up against the ceiling and me fearing for my life as I considered stepping on the step that said DON'T STEP HERE!, I couldn't get far enough away from it to get a picture of the whole thing. Will have to call in reinforcements so maybe you'll see it later this week. AND MAYBE YOU WON'T! How lucky do you feel? We'll see.
I'm so ready to be in bed and there's still at least four or five hours before I can even be at home let alone be there in my bed. Under the newly finished quilt. KILL ME NOW GOD KILL ME NOW. If there is a God. Which is debatable. For many reasons. Such as when you yell KILL ME NOW and you get no answer. Honestly. Not a difficult request!
Posted by Duff at January 29, 2007
You do get an answer when you yell "Kill me now" and that answer is "NO, I DON'T WANT TO."
Posted by: Charlotte at January 29, 2007 11:50 PM
I feel lucky! Well, maybe not, but I want to see those quilt pictures! :)
Posted by: alice at January 30, 2007 08:38 AM
oh how exciting another finished quilt. can't wait to see it!
Posted by: Amy at January 30, 2007 10:23 AM
thy will be done.
Posted by: maryse at January 30, 2007 10:40 AM
well take the pictures in pieces and photoshop them into a collage! Do NOT step on the step that doesn't want you to. You may find out what it feels like to have an actual broken limb if you do such a thing, ESPECIALLY with gum in your mouth. Accident waiting to happen...
Posted by: Sil at January 30, 2007 10:58 AM
Stop asking that. You can't have it. I won't allow it.
Posted by: juno at January 30, 2007 09:26 PM